This Thesis aims to develop interactive videos as the new media in teaching Arabic handwriting skill for students at Raden Intan State Islamic University of Lampung as one the state Islamic university in Indonesia. Some problems in teaching Arabic handwriting are the Medias, the Methods, the Materials as well as the student’s perceptions and attentions.

From the above problems, the researcher has formulated two main problems: ١) How is the design of interactive video for teaching the student’s Arabic handwriting skills at Raden Intan State Islamic University of Lampung? ٢) How is the effectiveness of interactive video to improve student’s Arabic handwriting skills at Raden Intan State Islamic University of Lampung?

The objectives of this research are ١) Designing interactive video for teaching the student’s Arabic handwriting skills at Raden Intan State Islamic University of Lampung. and ٢) knowing the effectiveness of interactive video to improve student’s Arabic handwriting skills at Raden Intan State Islamic University of Lampung.

In this research, the researcher applied the developmental research and experimental research design. The developmental research model that used was designing interactive video for teaching Arabic handwriting skill, and then, to estimate the effectiveness and the quality of the interactive video. The researcher puts it as the test towards the students of Raden Intan State Islamic University of Lampung.

The instruments that used for collecting data are observation, interview, questionnaire and test, and the researcher used Analysis Statistic Descriptive for analyzing the data.

The results of this research are : ١). In designing an interactive videos the researcher passed trough some steps, the first step is design and preparation, the second step is drafting the program, the third step is executing and the last step is the experiment and development.

And the product is the interactive video which carries the materials of the Arabic handwriting teaching by the title “Video Bimbingan Menulis Kaligrafi Arab Untuk Pemula” that completely finished well appropriating with the condition and the need of students. ٢) This media is effective to improve the student’s Arabic handwriting skill which is suitable to the Arabic letter structures.

The effectiveness of this media is showed by the result of student’s previous values ٥٧, ٥٦ becomes ٧٠, ٧٠. It is bigger than the standard value that the researcher has determined in the level ٧٠, ٠٠. It means that this media is effective to improve student’s handwriting skills.